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The Congressional Committee on the Decay of the American Marine.

The meeting of the special Congressional Committee on the Decay of American Commerce, has adjourned to be reopened in Boston. Much information was presented to them by our prominent merchants and shipbuilders, as to the causes of this national misfortune...

October 19, 1869

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